It's always best to not touch a data file when trying to import it. Create has many feature to help with that and most situations should be covered by these parameters.

Here's a tar file with several examples and data.

• Download and un-tar it somewhere on your server where you have access to it with interactive tool, on any account.
• createtest.tar.gz
• The best way to learn about the features is to work through the test.t script file in the above tar file looking at the results as you go.

stopIfExtraOrMissData=on/off - Always run without this first and check out any errors or warnings about your input data however if you determine there are just extra empty columns or missing columns that you don't mind padding with 0's then turn on this parameter.

delimiter - works for both coordinate and odometer format now

searchElemName1= and replaceElemName1= - use this to search and replace pair to match up with the changes to element names you may have made when extracting the informant for this data. Must be used together

replaceWhiteSpaceInElemName - replace any tab, space or other “white space” in the element names and should also be used to match up with the element name changes you may have made when extracting the informant set